1For the LORD your God will cut off the nations that the LORD your God is giving you, and you shall possess them and dwell in their cities and in their houses.2Three cities you shall set apart for yourself in the midst of your land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess.3You shall prepare the way for yourself and divide into three the border of your land that the LORD your God is causing you to inherit, so that every killer may flee there.4And this is the matter of the killer who flees there and lives: he who strikes his neighbor without knowledge, and he did not hate him from yesterday or three days ago.5And when he goes with his neighbor into the wood to chop trees, and his hand swings the axe to cut the tree, and the iron slips from the tree and finds his neighbor and he dies, he shall flee to one of these cities and live.6Lest the redeemer of the blood pursue after the killer, for his heart will be hot, and overtake him, for the way is long, and strike him fatally, though there is no judgment of death for him, for he did not hate him from yesterday or three days ago.7Therefore I command you, saying: Three cities you shall set apart for yourself.8And if the LORD your God enlarges your territory, as he swore to your fathers, and gives you all the land that he promised to give to your fathers,9For you shall keep all this commandment to do it, which I command you today, to love the LORD your God and to walk in his ways all the days, then you shall add for yourself still three cities upon these three.10And innocent blood shall not be poured out in the midst of your land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, and blood shall be upon you.11And if a man is one who hates his neighbor and lies in wait for him and rises against him and strikes him as to soul and he dies, then he shall flee to one of these cities.12And the elders of his city shall send and take him from there and give him into the hand of the redeemer of the blood, and he shall die.13Your eye shall not pity him, and you shall burn the blood of the innocent from Israel, and it shall be good for you.14You shall not move your neighbor's boundary, set up in the inheritance that you will receive in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess.